Friday, June 15, 2012

"Ultimately, Exploring Prosperity Preaching is a love letter to
the Black Evangelical Community from a woman shaped by some of the best
preachers in a tradition long known for its powerful, prophetic
preaching. So it's no surprise that this book is itself a powerful,
prophetic word to that same community, calling them - and by proxy all
of us who read - to those powerful, prophetic roots.

Bottom Line: An accessible, excellent evaluation of an emotional and
explosive topic. This book moves the conversation in a helpful,
necessary direction." Read more.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

"...I particularly liked her structure of the book. Notably in her
discussion of the theology of WoF, she 1) explained the WoF teaching, 2)
contrasted it with Scripture, and 3) applied it to the readers life.
This approach allows the reader to compare and contrast WoF theology
with the Bible in a easy-to-follow fashion. I would not be surprised,
considering she is a homelitician, that she structures her sermons in a
similar way. There is no lack of interacting with the WoF proponents or
their theology." Read More.

"In her book, Dr. Mumford objectively looks at and weighs the
negatives and positives of the prosperity gospel. Now I must admit that
I was intrigued when I was told that this book would look objectively
at the pros and cons of this subject. I had no understanding that
there WERE any pros. Well, we live and learn daily! If we pay
attention, God will teach us something from a subject or situation that
all we could do was disdain as beneath us. With disdain as my
foundation, and not realizing what blessings would come to me, I started
reading ”Exploring Prosperity Preaching“ to see what Sister Debra would say about it." Read More.

"Let me add, that “prosperity preaching” has affected many of us in some
way. It has invaded many churches, even those who may not be considered
“prosperity churches” they hear aspects of these theological positions.
Even here at SoulPreaching.Com I often have to answer in emails and
comments why we don’t teach that theology. This book will be one that I
suggest as a resource to those of us who have to address such questions." Read More.

"On March 14, 2012 on ThyBlackMan.com, Dell Gines wrote that post modern, materialistic hedonism is one of the most destructive things for the Black community. Truer words have seldom
been written. One of the even sadder realities of this materialistic
hedonism is that some of its sources are black churches. Prosperity
preachers teach their people that God promises them material wealth." Read More.

Exploring Prosperity Preaching is featured Book of the Month on the Church Lady Blogs.

"After reading Dr. Mumford’s take on the strength’s and weaknesses of prosperity preaching I just had to purchase a copy of her new book,Exploring Prosperity Preachingand let me say this, I could not put the book down....What I loved about this reading was that Dr. Mumford gives it to us
straight telling us the pros and cons of Prosperity Preaching. Further,
she backs her statements up with great research, scriptures and best
of all, I didn’t have to have a bible concordance sitting beside me to
help me interpret what she was conveying."